D3 Top 25 Fan Poll

[ExTartanPlayer]

IWU showed that Franklin did not take a bad loss to them IF they are not playing their #4 qb!  Jack Warner came back from mono yesterday and, after falling behind 21-0 in the first quarter while Jack shook off the rust, they only trailed NCC by a single TD after three quarters.  2014 will forever be known to Titan fans as the year that mono wrecked a promising season.

This is the most laughably homerific thing I've ever read.

1) IWU, with Warner still healthy, scored three points against Simpson.

Simpson just lost to Loras.

2) Being "within a touchdown of North Central in the fourth quarter before losing by 21" is a pretty charitable assessment of the ceiling of this team. That isn't "undefeated and bound for the semifinals" North Central. That's a two-loss North Central whose playoff hopes are on life support.

3) Fourth-string QB or not, the Titans lost to a couple of really bad teams. Even the world's biggest CCIW homer should be able to look at the league's noncoference results and see that it is not up to the usual standards. Top 25-caliber teams ought to beat Carthage and Augustana with their fourth-string QB in the game by handing the ball off 60 times.

[USee]

It blows me away that one voter thinks Heidelberg is the 16th best team in D3.  They aren't.  They'd fold like a freshly laundered shirt against any team in the top 25.

It blows me away that SJU is ahead of Concordia, and that someone has SJU outside their Top 25.

Then again, maybe the guy who has Heidelberg at 16 forgot to rank SJU 

Seriously though, thanks for doing this each week guys. Wish I had the time to do it this year.

Nope.  I'm the guy with Heidi at #16; I had SJU at #18.

I don't know if Heidi is worthy of #16, but they are DESTROYING everyone who isn't JCU or UMU.

And getting DESTROYED by everyone who IS. That's the point.

If not getting embarassed by UMU and JCU is a requirement to be top 25, I fear the top 25 will become the top 12!

You cannot equate UMU and JCU.  It's not credible.

I was not equating UMU and JCU, just noting that either one could beat many (most?) top 25 teams by huge margins.

I understand Mt Union but "most" means somewhere between half and 75% in my book.  I really don't thinkbyhere is any data to suggest JCU would beat 12-17 teams in the til 25 by huge margins.  I hi me that's a huge stretch

[smedindy]

Huge margins is rather odd. The margins of teams after, say, Wesley, are very tight. Heck, Linfield just lost to a conference opponent that was kind of shocking. Any game amongst Top 25 teams playing at even strength should be good (weather permitting).

[wesleydad]

Wesley 2014 > Wesley 2013.  Oh boy, here we go.

[smedindy]

I'll allow it! 

[d-train]

I assume Linfield will beat Pacific and still win the NWC, but the really interesting thing about taking that loss is that it might put Linfield on the road this year instead of teams traveling out to Oregon for the first couple of weeks of the tournament (at least).  Some people sort of bemoaned a four team pod that included Linfield, UMHB, the SCIAC champ and some random fourth team, with what we assume would feed into a Linfield @ UMHB game in the second round.  Linfield losing could make that kind of pod sensible with respect to seeding.

Agreed; Linfield will be fine and should win out and host an opening-round game.  They are now more likely to travel to UMHB in round two (rather than maybe in round three).  That'd be a tough draw for both squads. 

[GillCJ1]

Agreed; Linfield will be fine and should win out and host an opening-round game.  They are now more likely to travel to UMHB in round two (rather than maybe in round three).  That'd be a tough draw for both squads.

Hoo-boy.  A second round fight between UMHB and Linfield.  That would be intense.  You know Linfield is gonna bounce back mad, and UMHB got a pretty big wake up call from HSU, too.  I'll be surprised if both teams don't put up some big numbers this weekend.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

2014 WEEK 9 TOP 25 FAN POLL

Rank         Team                      Points    Prev
1)   UW-Whitewater (9)       249     1
2)   Mary Hardin-Baylor (1)  235    T2
3)   Mount Union             234    T2
4)   Wesley                  222     4
5)   Wartburg                205     6
6)   John Carroll            194     7
7)   Wabash                  188     8
8)   Hobart                  177     9
9)   Johns Hopkins           163    10
10)   Bethel                  156    11
11)   St John Fisher          139    12
12)   Linfield                134     5
13)   Wheaton                 133    13
14)   Wittenberg              129    15
15)   Widener                 104    16
16)   Wash & Jeff              98    17
17)   St John's                86    19
18)   UW Platteville           74    14
19)   Delaware Valley          70    21
20)   North Central            69    23
21)   Chapman                  47    24
22)   Centre                   40    25
23)   St Thomas                24    NR
24)   Montclair St             16    NR
25)   Heidelberg               10    NR

Dropped Out: UW-Stevens Point, Concordia-Moorhead, Hampden-Sydney

Also Receiving Votes: Concordia-Moorhead (8), Thomas More (8), Muhlenberg (7), Pacific Lutheran (7), UW-Oshkosh (5), Ithaca (4), MIT (4), Willamette (4), Rowan (3), Emory & Henry (1), Framingham St (1), Franklin (1), St Scholastica (1)

Voters: 02 Warhawk, D3MAFAN-MG, desertcat1, FCGrizzliesGrad, HSCTiger74, Mr. Ypsi, NCF, smedindy, thewaterboy, and Upstate

[smedindy]

Is this the most teams receiving votes in the Fan Poll? 38 teams...

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

  1)   UW-Whitewater        249      ( 1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  2)
  2)   Mary Hardin-Baylor   235      ( 1,  2,  2,  2,  2,  3,  3,  3,  3,  4)
  3)   Mount Union          234      ( 2,  2,  2,  2,  2,  3,  3,  3,  3,  4)
  4)   Wesley               222      ( 3,  3,  4,  4,  4,  4,  4,  4,  4,  4)
  5)   Wartburg             205      ( 5,  5,  5,  5,  5,  5,  6,  6,  6,  7)
  6)   John Carroll         194      ( 5,  5,  6,  6,  6,  7,  7,  7,  8,  9)
  7)   Wabash               188      ( 5,  5,  6,  6,  8,  8,  8,  8,  9,  9)
  8)   Hobart               177      ( 6,  6,  7,  7,  7,  8,  8,  9, 11, 14)
  9)   Johns Hopkins        163      ( 7,  7,  8,  8,  9, 10, 10, 10, 11, 17)
10)   Bethel               156      ( 7,  9,  9, 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12)
11)   St John Fisher       139      (10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 12, 15, 15)
12)   Linfield             134      ( 9, 10, 10, 13, 13, 13, 13, 14, 15, 16)
13)   Wheaton              133      ( 8,  9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 14, 14, 18)
14)   Wittenberg           129      ( 9, 10, 10, 11, 13, 13, 14, 14, 17, 20)
15)   Widener              104      (10, 12, 15, 15, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18, 20)
16)   Wash & Jeff           98      (12, 13, 13, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 18, 23)
17)   St John's             86      (15, 16, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 18, 19, 23)
18)   UW Platteville        74      (14, 14, 15, 15, 16, 19, 19, 22, --, --)
19)   Delaware Valley       70      (15, 16, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 20, 21, 24)
20)   North Central         69      (13, 17, 18, 18, 18, 19, 20, 20, 22, --)
21)   Chapman               47      (18, 20, 20, 21, 21, 21, 21, 22, 23, --)
22)   Centre                40      (19, 20, 20, 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, --, --)
23)   St Thomas             24      (20, 21, 22, 22, 23, 24, --, --, --, --)
24)   Montclair St          16      (21, 23, 23, 23, 24, --, --, --, --, --)
25)   Heidelberg            10      (16, --, --, --, --, --, --, --, --, --)

T26)   Concordia-Moorhead     8      (21, 24, 25)
T26)   Thomas More            8      (22, 23, 25)
T28)   Muhlenberg             7      (22, 24, 25)
T28)   Pacific Lutheran       7      (19)
30)   UW-Oshkosh             5      (22, 25)
T31)   Ithaca                 4      (24. 24)
T31)   MIT                    4      (24, 24)
T31)   Willamette             4      (24, 25, 25)
34)   Rowan                  3      (23)
T35)   Emory & Henry          1      (25)
T35)   Framingham St          1      (25)
T35)   Franklin               1      (25)
T35)   St Scholastica         1      (25)

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Is this the most teams receiving votes in the Fan Poll? 38 teams...

I'm not sure about past years, but we had 38 the first couple polls of this season as well.

[02 Warhawk]

Wow....totally expected to be the lone Oshkosh voter.

[D3MAFAN]

Wow....totally expected to be the lone Oshkosh voter.

I was that other voter, got to watch them over the last couple weeks and can see them winning their way into the playoffs somehow.

[02 Warhawk]

Ypsi single handily gets Heidelberg in the top 25  .

Looking at the OAC lines that mr_mom puts out each week (and not just for UMU and JCU games), it's incredible how non-competitive the bottom 1/2 of that conference is.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Ypsi single handily gets Heidelberg in the top 25  .

Looking at the OAC lines that mr_mom puts out each week (and not just for UMU and JCU games), it's incredible how non-competitive the bottom 1/2 of that conference is.

Perhaps this is the time to approach them for a stipend!